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Typography

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 940 Collections and/or Records:

Tout Est Perdu / Aubanel, Jean-Philippe ; Bakounine, Michel., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-25334-25790
Scope and Contents

Reproduced from poster political texts published in Lyon, France in 1870. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Trance & Recalcitrance: The Private Voice in the Public Realm / Poltroon Press ; Butler F ; Johnston A ; Jandl E ; Gysin B ; Ginsberg A ; Hirschman J ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 1995

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Identifier: CC-04763-4852
Scope and Contents

Essays by Frances Butler and Alastair Johnston present a historical, personal view of the founding of Poltroon, its philosophy and their artistic journeys during the twenty years of the press, a private voice in the public realm. They mention seeing the exhibition, "The Altered Page" at the Center for Book Arts, NYC consisting of works from the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

True to Type / Crombie, John., 1989

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Identifier: CC-46389-49114
Scope and Contents

This is a fictional biography of a man from his birth to age 80 years when he is near death. Several typefaces are employed to simulate the aging process. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

[Tune in] / Sych, Paul., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27611-28688
Scope and Contents

The poster depicts a radio, a woman's face, and a stylized eye pupil with a cartoon bubble reading, "tune in." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Typecasting / Murphy, Jay; Corris M., 1988

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Identifier: CC-06223-6337
Scope and Contents

Review of Michael Corris' books, "As if the Pillars of Society" and "Typographical Samples, Pictures & Polemics." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

typewriter art / Sonnenfeld, Mark., 2008

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Identifier: CC-49512-70558
Scope and Contents

The typewitten fonts are have been enlarged in a random style on each page along with a poetic phrase in small type. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Typografische Monatsblatter. No.12/Dec / Lissitzky E., 1970

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Identifier: CC-01133-1163
Scope and Contents

Jan Tschichold has written a section of the journal devoted to the work of El Lissitzky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Typographia 1 , 1976

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Identifier: CC-21973-22385
Scope and Contents

This book is a collection of typographical exercises interspersed with notes on printing, typography and the private press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Typographia 2 , 1979

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Identifier: CC-21964-22376
Scope and Contents

The book deals with definitions of the private press and includes 24 quotes from printers and critics in chronologic order by year beginning with 1897 and ending with 1979. The typographic styles for these quotes are varied in the tradition of fine press work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

TypoGraphic. No.50., 1997

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Identifier: CC-30600-32038
Scope and Contents

This issue of Typographic takes the work of type-designers and explores the differing reasons and purposes for their use of the computer as an appropriate tool. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

TypoGraphic: Other Values - Plus Ca. No.52., 1997

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Identifier: CC-37938-39818
Scope and Contents

This issue is concerned with the problems faced by the teachers of typography in higher education dealing with governments that have imposed mass accessibiity upon a system whose internal values remain elitist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997